skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s clear this wasn’t simply a mob going to far, it was very targeted. If they simply occupied the several buildings that wouldn’t have been a big deal IMO, but it’s clear their was effort to rifle though specific offices looking for information etc.

EX: https://www.foxnews.com/us/nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-riot-...

I don’t know how accurate the above story is, but it does speak to significant premeditation etc.

PS: If you look into how other countries covered the story it’s often portrayed as a more serious event than shown by American sources.
Nobody ever said you can't beat the market. They said you can't _consistently_ beat the market. Doing it once or twice happens all the time.
"Revision history would still show"

Except in a distributed system like Twitter (including client and server) there is no single timeline, and amateur digital forensics will erroneously say "aha, but you retweeted it before it was edited"
Sorry if my comment came off as critical - probably could have been worded better.

Derivatives are critical even to primary market participants. Farmers looking to secure their pay for future crop deliveries. Banks looking to remove interest rate risk on mortgages they've issued. Shipping companies looking to remove the risk of fuel fluctuations on their future transport costs.

Fluctuations of cost inputs and uncertainty of future revenues can be a company death sentence as they cause cash flow shocks. They have real value to the economy.

Often, they are only possible if there is a liquid market of people willing to take the other side of these transactions. Narrowing the spread between buy/sell prices on these derivative contracts allows more companies to be able to afford them, and that makes many low margin businesses able to exist at all.

Despite all the hate on social media, these markets have material value. ...even if there are these anomalies like this Gamestop incident.

I imagine the SEC is going to shut down that Reddit sub because these types if activities actually destroy liquidity but discouraging short sellers.

Regulation plays an important role in keeping markets running smoothly.
An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space
Or they could win some folks because of ... Twitter.
This project was born out of necessity. I have been using ImDisk Toolkit (https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/) for years without any issues. I particularly liked the ability to preload content to the RAM-disk from a local directory and synchronize the RAM-disk back on shutdown. However, I started meeting issues when some newer software applications refused to work with my ImDisk-powered RAM-disk. One easy to reproduce case is if you install Chrome 86+ and then try to install any Chrome extension - you will get a popup window with an error message

ERR_CANT_FIND_TEMP_FOLDER

The underlying reason for the error is that ImDisk driver works in a special mode (Direct-IO) which bypasses Windows Volume Manager. This leads to a problem with the Win32 API function GetFinalPathNameByHandle - you can read the discussions at

https://web.archive.org/web/20200805111419/http://reboot.pro...
https://web.archive.org/web/20200815180956/http://reboot.pro...

The author of ImDisk drver created Arsenal driver which works in the normal SCSI miniport mode and is visible to the Windows Volume Manager. He provides a console utility to create/remove RAM-disk(s) but no Windows service tool that will create a RAM-disk on boot - and certainly nothing similar to the ImDisk Toolkit that I was used to (and probably many other users). The console utility is also dependent on the ImDisk CPL applet - which I did not quite like (from a developer's point of view).

So I decided to create a GUI for configuring the parameters of the RAM-disk, plus a Windows service that will create the desired RAM-disk on boot and persist it on shutdown. Of course, I did some research before deciding to start the development - there were other free and commercial RAM-disk tools working as SCSI miniport drivers but they either did not have the additional features of ImDisk Toolkit or they required a VHD image for preloading/persisting the RAM-disk contents (and I preferred the usage of native filesystem instead of VHD image).

It took me about a week to extract the relevant code from the AIM (Arsenal Image Mounter) console utility and translate it from C++ to Objec Pascal. After a lot of debugging and trials/errors I succeeded - and successfully replaced ImDisk Toolkit with my tools. I have to admit that I was in a hurry and just needed a working solution - there were no attempts to make the code more robust or to implement complex features (like regex support in the list of folders excluded from synchronization at shutdown).

The code is provided "AS IS" in the hope that it will be useful to others. Testing was done only on Win7 x64 - most probably it will not work on XP. The code requires Admin privileges and the Arsenal driver - which can be downloaded from its official repository (https://github.com/ArsenalRecon/Arsenal-Image-Mounter/tree/m...).

You will need Delphi 7 and TNT-Unicode in order to compile the source code - or you can simply download the binary release.
“Most of the world” called it an attempted coup in an attempt to cancel the votes of 81 million Americans.
This would actually be hilarious... some deranged Bond villain who's conspiring to melt the permafrost to release all the methane so as to drive humanity extinct, lol...
Nope. I’ve got one of the old, mechanical thermostats with an analog dial and a bimetallic strip that completes a circuit to run the heater. My apartment building is about 50 years old, and I’m pretty sure it’s still the original equipment. They’re so simple they just don’t wear out.
It's not black and white, it's shades of gray.
2000: "a dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus, joined by a few sympathizers", Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois (https://www.nytimes.com./2001/01/07/us/over-some-objections-...
2004: Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and California Sen. Barbara Boxer (https://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/06/electoral.vot...)
YouTube has paid more than $30B to creators over the last three years
> Gore would likely have won had it continued

Isn’t this the exact line the trumpers put out? I hate to be a both sides guy but seriously both sides sound ridiculous when they say stuff like this.
No nesccesarily, the options are more broad than just an RV for sure, if you can earn an income remotely you have far better options. For example in germany a huge percentage of the population rent rather than buy : http://www.rentalcal.eu/the-german-rental-market There are good regulations around it there, but there is not the drive to own. Again though it's different folks different strokes.
1. You're right, I brought it up. I think it's ok/acceptable to compare/contrast these kinds of things among countries.

2. You're right, I'm wallowing in self-pity for my country's massive recent failures.
Consulting with Developers on VScode – Done
> unheard of in history for the far left and far right to experience the same issues

That doesn't seem true. They were both excluded entirely from broadcast media.
Thanks for taking the time to reply and explain; I didn't understand how it works.
Which means they were donating to those people before they did what they did.

The indexer of all information couldn't see this coming. Hmm.
This isn't about individuals but one of hundreds of thousands of political organizations that rely on Facebook for their political work.
Trading firms do not focus on fundamentals. They have teams of industry experts doing the exact same kind of research you were doing.
You would think so, but I fear that google is a corruptive influence wherever it goes. What changes would google require education made to get its donations? How much vendor lock in will their 'donations' get them?

A strong education system is important, an education system bought and paid for by corporate interests directly is another step towards giving google power it will wield to everyone else's detriment.
As the article states it's from the Czech word "robota". Clearly these are related but sometimes there are nuances between languages, even for very similar words.

I heard about this origin multiple times but never had it verified.

Maybe some native Czech speaker can enlighten us here :)
It doesn't contradict all gods, but it does explicitly contradict most gods, or at least what most in the western world mean when they say "God."
Clearly there is a logic flow problem if you equate "educated means you tend to vote left" == "not voting left means you're not educated"
Oil companies buy systems to rent seek from future energy/transportation infrastructure. Not surprising.
My prediction: bundling. Most of the good content (excluding self-hosted) is now arguably on Substack, but the subscription model is still one-to-one and doesn’t allow them to take advantage of the network effects. There’s a limited number of subscriptions I’m willing to pay for. Bundling economics, if done right, could extract a higher monthly fee from me into the platform. After all, the marginal cost of providing content to me is negligible, so anything I’d be willing to pay for but not enough for to justify another subscription is money left on the table.
I cover this chatter as a sideproject. Wallstreetbets is seeing higher levels of chatter than when the coronavirus broke out. I think it may be the highest level this year.

https://topstonks.com/stocks/gme
Pirates was so great, entertaining, and generally informative if you knew nothing about the subject even though it wasn't totally accurate. But at the time, what other comedy, drama would you find about the history of the personal computer? There was literally nothing else like it out there and very little else like it since.

I was a teen who knew little about the history about personal computers when I first saw it. I had just gotten my Windows 95 machine, my first computer and was stoked cause I paid for a third of it with my own money from working odd jobs. My mom paid the rest.

Anyways, I found the subject matter engaging so I have a fond place for that movie.
If there are only two traders trading against one another, you are correct.

...but there is an ecosystem of traders intertwined and many of them are primary market participants, so the market does care, because the "gamblers" are providing liquidity to the legitimate participants.
I have seen many PostgreSQL benchmarks having solid performance with TB data but my real world experience is the complete opposite.

Here are some of the main issues that I have encountered so far:

1. Queries on large tables (around 10 GB) are slow even when "index only scan" is used because of MVCC and the way postgreSQL manages concurrency.

2. Hot-standby instances can't be used for anything serious since all queries are dropped regularly (I believe it's not safe to use "hot_standby_feedback" config to overcome this issue).

3. It is not possible to have tables with heavy "update" workflows. (because of simultaneous autovaccum execution)

I would be very happy if anyone could show me that I am wrong.
Me too. It is really bad. Myopia is no issue when I work at the computer, since I can move closer, but with astigmatism I cannot read at all without glasses. It has recently increased to 3.5 diopter cylinder according to the measurement device. At those values it is even difficult to buy glasses.

>Anyone know what can cause sudden onset of astigmatism in adulthood? It appeared a couple years ago and seems stable. Not sure over what period it appeared, probably in 3-12 months.

If it was unstable, it could be keratokonus
Will twitter penalize substack users like it had penalized sharing of instagram pictures by removing the preview embedded in tweets?
JSC isn't even in the same ballpark for memory usage.

https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/react-native-memory-pro...

Apparently Apple has invested more in raw JS performance while Google has invested more in their garbage collector.
"Revue by Twitter"

It's interesting that the tech giants keep tagging their names onto the brands they acquire. Does that really help?

I know that the tech crowd exists in a bubble and that the hatred for the tech giants on HN doesn't really reflect the feelings of the general public... but even outside the tech sphere, are there really many people who like Twitter as a company? Most people just seem to tolerate the companies behind their preferred platform. It doesn't seem to me like there would be many who would be more likely to engage with a new brand as a result of its association with Twitter. If anything, I'd expect the opposite effect.
$6,500 (US), March 2021 https://alphauniverse.com/stories/sony-announces-the-alpha-1...
> we now know, Gore would likely have won had it continued.

This is not correct.
In the early 2020's it's apparently fashionable to claim you support democracy by only supporting those you agree with politically. I can understand only donating to one party, but not for the ridiculous reason Google has given. The vote was entirely within the process. If Google/SV are actually concerned about election integrity and stopping violence, they have a tremendous number of avenues on the left they can pursue to make America a less divided and safer place.
Seems like an editorial decision to me.
2000 makes a lot of sense though, florida was fucky business. Democrats were symbolic and not inciting terrorists to overthrow democracy on absurdly false claims.

dont try feign similarity with over generalizations. Youre being dishonest and misleading.
> Translation: I offer my opinion on something I literally and admittedly avoided reading.
When the pendulum swings back to crazy conservative, after the country has had enough of crazy liberal, I assume google will have another change of mind?
I don’t think you do, given how I’ve broken it down to below ELI5 levels, and you’re still snarking at me, but, ok.

Additionally, you are quite wrong. I distinctly recall the first time I was ever literally moved to tears by music, and it was precisely when the choir sang their first note in A Survivor from Warsaw, op 46 by Arnold Schoenberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbFVYbDuVg

Since then, I have been touched by sadness, beauty, anger, awe, and many other emotions as a result of experiencing art.
UMatrix is now “Archived” i.e. unsupported:

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24532973
>Google donate money to education or other social services, rather than use their money to influence politics.

they will use those donations to influence politics differently, is all. We will get a spinoff company whose job is education or social services, and that company will try to capture regulators and pay off the low end administrators they find in the education system.
Which Democrats voted against certifying the results of the 2000 and 2004 election? The only objection brought between 1877 and 2020 was in 2004 on Ohio. But given that Barbara Boxer is retired and Stephenie Tubbs is dead, the question is probably moot anyways.
You’re missing the point.

We are the exception to the norm. Most people just watch whatever is on Netflix.
Ya! Although extreeeeeemely kludgy, I did so many hacky things -- definitely could not be used as a template for anything else and is a bit weird/embarrassing. I'll pretend it's an homage to the 90s web even though it's actually just laziness. ;)

I initially started with GatsbyJS/React, but it was stopping me from getting to what I needed to do (CSS + content). So even though I was going to start with full JS, it ended up JS-free (I don't use any trackers), which also saved me from having to jump through the right hoops to be more accessibility-friendly!
The 2020 election was the most decisive victory of the three and resulted in a failed insurrection so it’s not much of a comparison is it?
Here is the full vote results. For the House and Sentate respectively. In this case yea means they voted to object to the results of the 2004 election.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201217051145/https://clerk.hou...

https://web.archive.org/web/20201212192739/https://www.senat...
People post politics on Social Media for the same reason that always do - validation seeking.

Also I think in the world we live in there are exactly 0 people who have half conservative and half liberal friends. The two groups work at different companies, live in different cities, watch different news, and now use different social networks.
Please recall that this is the same company that "fumbled" one of the largest public-offerings in its day, to go "global".. followed years of personnel turmoil and missed goals after blaming the teamsters for everything
I wonder if the dust settles and the UK/EU relationship becomes much like Canada to the US. Canada is a deep ally to the US, with a demilitarized border, tons of trade, friendly relations, cultural sharing, and easy transit between the two nations (covid notwithstanding). Canada is a much smaller, less powerful, poorer, and less globally relevant country, but is hardly impoverished. And it seems there truly are advantages to being smaller and more independent -- Canada certainly has some strong societal advantages over the US, a better social safety net, less of a military-industry complex, better income equality, etc.
The individual members of Congress aren’t the President.

You can form whatever opinion you like on the merits of the objections, but the end result is the same. In three separate elections this century there were Democrats in Congress who voted against certifying the election results.

You can hand wave it away as much as you like. The facts will remain. It’s on the voting record.
Perhaps I misunderstood the thrust of your point, in which case I hope you’ll correct me. It seems you’re saying basically all species are equal, not in all being created, but in all being alike. If I’m close to target, and if the basic salamander could talk ontology, I posit they would disagree with you… not by saying “salamanders are dull, humans are exciting”, but by saying “we are both created we know not from where, and go to we know not where – but you humans show evidence of caring about this, unlike us salamanders.” The very existence of a salamander – let alone seeing it form and grow – says very clearly a few points, especially that humans are amazed by these things (look at the comments!) wherease salamanders are not amazed but merely (although still gloriously) amazing. In which case an argument that humans aren’t special (and therefore have a greater burden of responsibility and joy) seems to fall wide of the mark.
All the data in the world can't change the reality of businesses closing down forever in the city I live in (Sofia, Bulgaria). Organizations who are trying to protect the interests of various business branches raised a huge outcry lately because many restaurants, gyms, malls, and shops housed in malls are at the brink of a complete and irreversible bankruptcy.

Furthermore -- and as is expected here in Eastern Europe -- the government promised to help those businesses and most of them haven't received a cent yet.

In light of these events the government finally decided to actually start opening up the country while still requiring a PCR test if you want to come in. We will be "in lockdown" but a lot of stuff will start operating as usual, with gradually relaxed measures in the areas where things are still locked down spread throughout the next 3 months.

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I feel this pandemic brought the worst out of people. Sure, we must try and protect the lives of others because their immune system might not be as strong and they can literally die, that's not under dispute! But the outright bullying I witnessed both virtually and physically in person out there is nothing but extremely saddening. And overdone.

People turned on each other while the proof that looser social distancing leads to increased cases has been somewhat unconvincing. To be 100% clear, and before I eat 1000 enraged disagreements, the correlation is clearly there but looking at the data week by week (and month by month) that correlation definitely wasn't as strong as the proponents for full lockdowns make it look. And then you have countries like Sweden (and people still can't agree on why their numbers are [were?] like they are).

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And judging by seeing which comments here get the grey color treatment and unconstructive comments, I'd say the pandemic seems to be one of the most strongly politically charged topics in the last several months, likely for the entirety of 2020 even.

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Please try and understand the other side. People who want the lockdown to end are not "monsters" and "dumb egoists" or whatever. They want to be able to afford food! And please don't forget that stimulus packages and meaningful unemployment benefits (not talking about the literal 80 to 100 EUR you can get here in Bulgaria) are actually something very small number of countries are blessed with. Most of the countries on this planet throw their citizens under the bus while still expecting them to pay all taxes. So please leave your privilege at the door before judging.

And please, be considerate. It seems everybody turned on each other. It's heart-breaking to witness and is not helping anything. Bullying people doesn't help a bankrupt family business that leaves 20 people wondering if they'll eat the next week.
While automation error certainly could be deliberate, given Facebook's often haphazard crappiness, its possible they did screw up.
I’m not going to pretent to under the US politician system, but isn’t kinda weird that the employees of a single company almost exclusively vote the same way?

Doesn’t that show a huge lack of diversity?
This reminded me of a story from 15 years ago.

I once worked for a company that was writing a proposal for a US Homeland Security IT system. This was 2006. I wasn't involved in it but my office-mate was. He randomly turned his chair around and said "hey, can you go on Dell.com and see if you can build the most expensive server imaginable" – so I did and I ended up at around $350k. I don't remember what it was, but at the time the stats just felt absolutely obscene. I do remember that, at that scale we were buying a closet, not just one box.

And I told him the price, and he said, "They have set aside $20 million for server hardware, and what you configured is way way overkill for what they think they need" – so we were both so damn perplexed because, at least from what he told me, this didn't need that much. And it wasn't one of those classified projects where they couldn't tell you what it was for. It was a pretty boring line of business type thing (like HR or building access control or something).

Maybe that's probably more a story of just how much cash was being poured into that agency during the years after 9/11.
Mostly palletized, but also crates...stuff like say, a pool table.

There's also some cases where boxes over LTL makes sense...big boxes that are lightweight. Normal UPS and Fedex charge "dimensional weight", where shipping a large box that's light is charged by size, not weight. Sometimes that pushes the price much higher than LTL.
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